How? Do we have to do what Australia did, dissolve the whole operation and start from scratch?
Seems to have worked for them. But then, they do not have a mentality that an English accent is a substitute for proven competence when it comes to running a football organisation.
Incidentally, a few of their(FFA that is) CEOs came from a non-football background, but from a decent sport management background in their own country (NRL, AFL, NRL again). Did not seem to have harmed them, and they've mostly avoided any amateurish stuff-ups.
1: NZF is amateur hour. Holding a position of power has not been career advancing for anyone (maybe Bill McGowan but yeah...)
2: No idea what the pay is but I doubt its huge. Same could be said for other sports organisations I guess
3: Talent pool. Name someone with any credibility at sports management. The talent pool is thin and those that would be named, already have a gig.
When I think of the 2 best sports administrators in Jim Doyle and Martin Snedden, the rest would be secondary to them and those guys earn far more than NZF would pay at higher profile gigs. In the case of Snedden, I think he could walk into any job and name his price such is his success rate and gravatas. When you come back down the talent pool, what are you getting thats going to be effective for what you are going to pay? David White would trip over his own shoelaces if he knew how to tie them together and he runs NZC.
Personally, I would mortgage NZF to the eyeballs to get Snedden as CEO for 4 years. I think he would shake it up and it would eventually pay for itself.